It is weird and it’s extra-weird that everywhere from Carthage to Greece to China failed to use an efficient system for writing numbers. It’s not like there was just one outlier which kept a traditional system.
And I wonder if the use of traditional systems for writing delayed the development of calculus and advanced mathematics too.
It is weird and it’s extra-weird that everywhere from Carthage to Greece to China failed to use an efficient system for writing numbers. It’s not like there was just one outlier which kept a traditional system.
And I wonder if the use of traditional systems for writing delayed the development of calculus and advanced mathematics too.